Eckhart Tolle frames the personality as a garment that consciousness puts on temporarily — when the garment dissolves, the underlying ray of awareness remains and takes another form. The essence of you, he says, is timeless.
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The person is a garment that consciousness puts on for a little while and then the garment dissolves and the conscious that ray is still there. It has its own individuality still and then it takes on another garment and then another and then another. Between the essence of you is actually timeless.